I don't give a shit about the colour of my magical battle pet.
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How hard could it be to apply a color filter to the mon's texture, to make each individual mon vary just like with it's genes, on it's color. Not all the way, but like true animals, or how they did with Spinda's ears.
I'm asking, not acusing. I don't remember if it was easy on the cpu/gpu or not.
Now that they're cg instead of sprites it should be no trouble at all.
Monster Rancher managed it back in like 1999 on the PS1, and they actually gave things different textures, number of eyes, wings, etc. depending on the parents. (Taking about 35 base creatures and making 400 unique ones… back in a time when Pokemon was still only 150) They got different abilities and stats based on the parent species too. It was a pretty amazing in depth system. That level of crazy would be impossible in pokemon now that they're at 800 monsters, but they're getting something slightly similar out of the Aloan forms.
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And over in Monster Racers (a game no one has heard of or played) they actually let you fully customize the critter's base color in any hue you wanted… unless it was a shiny, which had unique color combos. (And their shiny rate was super reasonable. Like, 1 in 50, instead of 5000) And as you bred monsters you could pass along multiple traits, like the Shin Megami Tensei series. They actually did a lot right for a single outing game.
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Well, well, well? Looks like one of my comments ended up on this fellow YouTuber's video.
The YouTuber's name is Slimee with two e's and they have some great sense of humor and has used Photoshop to make some rare shiny fixes.
I asked them about a few Pokèmon shiny suggestions and they said yes and have made a part 2 of this series.
Seems like a very cool user and I'm giving Slimee a shoutout since Slimee's videos made me laugh count a bit.
Just posting it here since it's Pokèmon related.
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So, I finally got a Bruxish. (Stupid 1% finding chance) And I was breeding them to try and get a good nature on it, and then once I had that, was going to breed it with a Sharpedo to get it ice fang and poison fang, to then ultimately try and get a nice strong jaw monster going.
And on the way, before i've even got a good nature down, I get a shiny.
Of all the things to blow my random shiny luck on. You couldn't have waited a few more eggs when they were getting natures and moves?
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Depending on how far back you saved, you can just load the save and swap in a different parent to make shiny (well, assuming you use Masuda and/or Shiny Charm). Shiny Bruxish is hideous as it is, IMO.
Also, you should only ever fish when the water is rippling. If you do that Bruxish is a 20% chance, not 1%. This is the case for pretty much all the rare fishing pokémon (though some are 10% instead of 20%, like Dratini I think).
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I have no idea when I last saved, and I wasn't on a pure hatching spree, I was also doing wild battles to level up, so there's no telling where the RNG actually is. So nope, no resetting to rig the system on this one.
I'll live with having and ugly shiny fish that doesn't have the nature, ability, or moves that I wanted it to have.
I'm okay with it being ugly, that's charming in its own way, but…
Also, getting attached to Turtonator now that I have one, though it's competing with Salazzle, Aloan Marrowak, and Kommo-o. Stupid plethora of fire and dragon types...
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At least you can change the ability with an Ability Capsule, and you can Hyper Train for IVs. You can also do just fine without extra egg moves. Crunch and Psychic fangs are already fantastic biting moves with coverage. Just round it off with a water move like Aqua Jet or Waterfall and pick whatever for the last move (I think Swords Dance is a popular choice). But if you have a bad nature that's unfortunate.
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Registration for the International Challenge 2017 started today. Anyone who takes part in it will get the Mawilite and Beedrillite (otherwise unobtainable in Sun/Moon).
https://3ds.pokemon-gl.com/competitions/ (you must be logged for it to appear)
I hope they don't require you to actually fight, since the whole tournament will take place during carnival here in Brazil and I will not be home (and since I never got ORAS, I am still waiting to finally see glorious Mega Beedrill in person)
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At least you can change the ability with an Ability Capsule, and you can Hyper Train for IVs. You can also do just fine without extra egg moves. Crunch and Psychic fangs are already fantastic biting moves with coverage. Just round it off with a water move like Aqua Jet or Waterfall and pick whatever for the last move (I think Swords Dance is a popular choice). But if you have a bad nature that's unfortunate.
Yeah, fixing shinies was about all ability capsules were good for. Way waaay too expensive though.
And shiny fish has an attack lowering nature, so… nope. It gets to be box decoration or eventual trade fodder.
On that note though, Bruxish is amaaaazing trade fodder it seems. I've gotten copies of all the Tapus, Null, and most of the ultra beasts now. I haven't hunted for anything prior to this gen yet, since I have everything, but neat. I wonder if the anchor would get similar results?
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I thought ability capsules were always only for switching between standard abilities, never hidden ones. Was there a glitch last gen? Never actually used one.
In this game it's 100 BP in battle tree for an ability capsule, which is somewhat attainable, but still time-consuming. If you do a 50 battle streak you can also get one for free.
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Nevermind, I'm mis-remembering. Upon checking, it was the opposite, it couldn't access hidden abilities, which is probably why I never bothered getting one.
Also the ridiculous expense.
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I hope they don't require you to actually fight, since the whole tournament will take place during carnival here in Brazil and I will not be home (and since I never got ORAS, I am still waiting to finally see glorious Mega Beedrill in person)
They usually require you to fight in 3 battles.
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I'll never understand these trends of particular things suddenly trading for all the legendaries. I've tried a few times with stuff people said worked for them with pretty much no luck. The best luck I had trading for rarer things (but not legendaries) was with Vanillites. Those would trade for just about anything instantly. I know Robo did something similar with Castform.
Anyway yeah Ability Capsules are kind of outrageously expensive but a streak of 30 in the Battle Tree basically earns you enough to buy one (and that's a lot easier than actually making it to 50). And it's faster than trying to get a new shiny XD.
They usually require you to fight in 3 battles.
Well for this they're claiming it's a gift for entry… if it required 3 battles I would assume it has to be explicit about that in the rules somewhere or there will be lots of pissed people. And I haven't seen anything like that myself so I'm assuming you just have to sign up. I was planning on doing like 1 battle just to be sure.
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Well for this they're claiming it's a gift for entry… if it required 3 battles I would assume it has to be explicit about that in the rules somewhere or there will be lots of pissed people. And I haven't seen anything like that myself so I'm assuming you just have to sign up. I was planning on doing like 1 battle just to be sure.
I don't trust GameFreak to explain these things properly. Three battles won't take that long, better safe than sorry.
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Sometimes I hate Wonder Trade. But it's hard to complain when you get a level 100 6-IV shiny Mew with PP Max on all its moves, carrying Leftovers.
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At least you can change the ability with an Ability Capsule, and you can Hyper Train for IVs. You can also do just fine without extra egg moves. Crunch and Psychic fangs are already fantastic biting moves with coverage. Just round it off with a water move like Aqua Jet or Waterfall and pick whatever for the last move (I think Swords Dance is a popular choice). But if you have a bad nature that's unfortunate.
After having recently bred 5 perfect IV Toxapex, Mimikyu, Marowak, and Kangaskhan I'm feeling kinda dumb for not using hyper training. Still learning this thing.
Also, after avoiding this thread to avoid spoilers, I've finished it. Short review, I'm impressed that they kept a bland and non offensive story so interesting. The simple yet charming characters helped, and the pacing was good. I like black and white's story better, but this is still good. I've only just beaten the ultra beast storyline so far. Right now, I'm obsessed with creating my perfect team to ace the battle tree, simply because I'm mad with how badly I lost it the first time I've tried.
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After having recently bred 5 perfect IV Toxapex, Mimikyu, Marowak, and Kangaskhan I'm feeling kinda dumb for not using hyper training. Still learning this thing.
Breeding is still technically the optimal way since you don't have to raise them to level 100 and once you have perfect IV parents it becomes easy to pop out perfect mons as many times as you want in minutes.
Hyper training also consumes bottle caps, which are technically farmable, but due to being annoying to obtain are probably better used for hyper training of things like shinies with a couple missing IVs, or things from your in-game team or from previous games that you want to improve.
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Yeah a lot of my early shinies I didn't bother breeding for IVs but in retrospect I wish I had. I have a ton of bottle caps so that's not even a concern for me but aside from having to level to 100 it's just more satisfying to actually hatch something perfect.
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Besides leveling to Lv 100 is really annoying in this game
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Unless you have the right rare kitchen in festival plaza, in which case leveling up is actually super fast.
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Yeah I have three level 5 Rare Kitchens in my plaza (all of them from Sophocles, didn't even request them from other players). I can bring a mon to level 100 from level 1 in like an hour.
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I can bring a mon to level 100 from level 1 in like an hour.
That seriously took about five minutes in Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire. Blissey Bases FTW.
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In one sense that's awesome, but in another I don't know how I feel about the game letting you ENTIRELY bypass the process of actually raising pokémon.
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Breeding is still technically the optimal way since you don't have to raise them to level 100 and once you have perfect IV parents it becomes easy to pop out perfect mons as many times as you want in minutes.
Hyper training also consumes bottle caps, which are technically farmable, but due to being annoying to obtain are probably better used for hyper training of things like shinies with a couple missing IVs, or things from your in-game team or from previous games that you want to improve.
Hey, thanks for that info! It's comforting.
Yeah I have three level 5 Rare Kitchens in my plaza (all of them from Sophocles, didn't even request them from other players). I can bring a mon to level 100 from level 1 in like an hour.
What?! I've heard about the Kitchen, but I didn't know it was so effective. I'll look into that.
Meanwhile, I just bred a 5IV Damp Parasect cause I heard it's good for SOS battles. After finding one, I'm left to wonder if it was worth it, and I assume no.
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What?! I've heard about the Kitchen, but I didn't know it was so effective. I'll look into that.
Level 5 Rare Kitchen offers two once-a-day dishes that help a ton. Rare Dinner (100 FC) will make any pokémon that's level 79 or under automatically gain 7 levels, and Rare Buffet (300 FC) will make any pokémon that's level 89 or under automatically gain 9 levels. Since I have three of them, each day I can gain 7x3 + 9x3 levels, or 48 levels. That means instantaneous leveling from 50 to 98. Since the latest you can use it is at 89, you can't cheat those last two levels… but you can always use a couple Rare Candies if you want to make it even faster.
Anyhow what that means is my only real task is to level up to 50, which with a Lucky Egg takes no time at all. Maybe like 2-3 runs of E4 depending on the pokémon's growth rate. The final two levels take about as long as the first 50. So yeah with a decent setup that can be done in approximately an hour. I can sweep the entire E4 with my Mimikyu, usually without healing (but it depends on what the A.I. does with its damn Sturdy pokémon).
Now as you've probably noticed this costs FC. 1200 to be exact. But that hasn't seemed to be a problem for me. I just visit the plaza for a few minutes at different times of day to talk to guests and Wonder Trade off breedjects, and I don't seem to be depleting FC overall. I mean, I don't raise something to 100 every day either, so yeah. My setup involves three level 5 fortune tellers as well, so that I can try to get FC multipliers in my plaza. Today I got lucky and I have a x4 multiplier so all trades and guests give me 4x FC. That really helps since a single guest can give me 120 FC.
And I got ALL my facilites from Sophocles (the final one I have is a Treasure Hunt for those curious). But yeah for context my plaza is over level 200 now.
Edit: Just looked up experience growth tables and the last 2 levels are actually significantly faster than the first 50. Like 2-3 times faster.
In other news I finally was able to steal a Shed Shell from a Goomy. That was one of the most annoying things I've had to do in this game.
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What?
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I would buy a version of the game where every Pikachu is replaced with Usain Bolt in Team Skull getup.
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Looks like Pokemon GO is getting a pretty significant overhaul (image is from GDC)
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Looks like Pokemon GO is getting a pretty significant overhaul (image is from GDC)
Nah that's concept art from the beta version of the app, the interface isn't gonna change, it's just them sharing what kind of stuff they want to include in the future. Serebii reported on it yesterday
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So the latest Global Mission just ended as an overwhelmingly absurd and insane success… But when I went to pick up my reward for it, all I got was the BP. Despite the fact that they said we would also get Rare Candies and a Heavy Ball, and this on a cartridge where I'd been regularly fighting the Battle Tree and earned well over a hundred points. What gives? Am I doing something wrong? Or has nobody else gotten the obnoxiously rare and admittedly not terribly useful Ball either?
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So the latest Global Mission just ended as an overwhelmingly absurd and insane success… But when I went to pick up my reward for it, all I got was the BP. Despite the fact that they said we would also get Rare Candies and a Heavy Ball, and this on a cartridge where I'd been regularly fighting the Battle Tree and earned well over a hundred points. What gives? Am I doing something wrong? Or has nobody else gotten the obnoxiously rare and admittedly not terribly useful Ball either?
Apparently they are gonna distribute them later on this month via a serial code on global link. At least thats is written on serebii website
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Their distribution methods are terrible. My guess is they can only actually give out FC in-game.
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Apparently they are gonna distribute them later on this month via a serial code on global link. At least thats is written on serebii website
It was like that the last time with the Rare Candy and the Friend (?) Ball
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I was looking on ebay today, and found this:
Note: The startup picture of this game may be Spongebob,but after you enter the game,you will find that this is exactly the game you are purchasing for heart gold, Soul silver.
I've heard of bootlegs, but that thing is just an R4 with tape over the micro sd card.
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So they are using and giving Marshadow in the first event when there is only one mythical this time? where they smart this time, and just didn't include them all in the game or is a new game coming soon?
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So they are using and giving Marshadow in the first event when there is only one mythical this time? where they smart this time, and just didn't include them all in the game or is a new game coming soon?
From what I read Marshadow is in the upcoming new movie Pokemon: I Choose You.
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From what I read Marshadow is in the upcoming new movie Pokemon: I Choose You.
That is what I meant, they usually release one of these mythical pokemon each movie, but this time we only have Marshadow, I though they would save him for later, but they are using it now, so either they finally got smart and didn't put the others ingame yet, or a new gen is coming sooner than usual.
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Which other mythical pokemon isn't in the game?
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Which other mythical pokemon isn't in the game?
I'll try to explain better, every gen we get about 3 mythicals, for example last gen, Diancie, Hoopa and Volcanion, each year they give us one of them with a movie, with datamining we always knew who the other mythicals were event though we weren't supposed to know, now this gen we only have 2, Magearna that was already released and Marshadow.
So with Marshadow gone, we have no datamined mythicals left since this gen they only found Marshadow.
I'm wondering what this means, if the other mythicals exist are going to be added in future games(still gen 7), they stop doing these mysticals as movie promotions or a new gen is coming(they were hiring people).
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Been looking everywhere and can't find one, so I'll try here.
Anyone have a Hidden Ability Girafarig that they could trade? (HA = Sap Sipper)
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Which other mythical pokemon isn't in the game?
Pikachu.
Been looking everywhere and can't find one, so I'll try here.
Anyone have a Hidden Ability Girafarig that they could trade? (HA = Sap Sipper)
Yep.
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Pikachu.
http://media.wwg.com/2016/10/ashs-pikachu-194754.jpgThat Pikachu is also already set to release this year as a promotion for the next movie
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/03/15/special-hat-wearing-ash-pikachu-headed-japan-pokmon-sun-moon/Well, in Japan at least.
Come to think of it, I remember when X and Y had Diancie, Hoopa, Volcanion, AZ's Floette and Mega Lati data mined, but out of all of those…. did we ever get AZ's Floette?
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Never got the Floette.
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Maybe we just have to wait 3000 years
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Okay, so I was just fighting in the Battle Tree… Using a Jolly Lucario with maxed out Speed IVs and EVs... Also holding a Choice Scarf to further boost his Speed as part of a completely bullshit troll strategy (basically, set up Stealth Rock and then ROAR EVERYTHING INTO OBLIVION.)… Now here's the thing I don't get...
How the hell did that thing manage to get outsped by everything I encountered?! He got outsped by a freaking Druddigon for Arceus' sake! I did the calculations, unless I'm completely wrong about this a Scarfed Lucario should be guaranteed to outspeed literally everything the Battle Tree could possibly throw at me unless the opponents are likewise holding a Choice Scarf, and getting outsped by a Druddigon should be literally impossible. For the record my stats had not been lowered and its stats had not been raised.
Come on game, I know my strategy was about as unfair as they come, but unless you are actively altering my Pokémon's stats on the fly, what just happened should not be possible. -
Pretty sure Roar always goes last no matter your speed.
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Okay, so I was just fighting in the Battle Tree… Using a Jolly Lucario with maxed out Speed IVs and EVs... Also holding a Choice Scarf to further boost his Speed as part of a completely bullshit troll strategy (basically, set up Stealth Rock and then ROAR EVERYTHING INTO OBLIVION.)… Now here's the thing I don't get...
How the hell did that thing manage to get outsped by everything I encountered?! He got outsped by a freaking Druddigon for Arceus' sake! I did the calculations, unless I'm completely wrong about this a Scarfed Lucario should be guaranteed to outspeed literally everything the Battle Tree could possibly throw at me unless the opponents are likewise holding a Choice Scarf, and getting outsped by a Druddigon should be literally impossible. For the record my stats had not been lowered and its stats had not been raised.
Come on game, I know my strategy was about as unfair as they come, but unless you are actively altering my Pokémon's stats on the fly, what just happened should not be possible.Roar has a -6 priority. That's as slow as moves get. it's going to go last every time.
Whirlwind and dragon tail are the same. In order to prevent exactly the stategy you're trying.
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Roar has a -6 priority. That's as slow as moves get. it's going to go last every time.
Whirlwind and dragon tail are the same. In order to prevent exactly the stategy you're trying.
Oh.
Well, that would explain it. Stupid game, not letting me be blatantly unfair with it. Oh well, in fairness I guess having that strategy actually work would, indeed be super hated among everyone ever.
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Gotta try a little harder for Battle Tree cheesing XD. Pretty sure that even without negative priority, your strategy could still get destroyed by actual priority though. I don't know the full list of possible opposing 'mons but it would be hilarious if you got hit by Prankster Leech seed.